Module | Driving question | Phenomena used | DCIs | SEPs | CCs |
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Shared biochemistry | What shapes the characteristics of all living things? | Glowing fish Firefly tails | HS-LS1.A HS-LS3.A HS-LS4.A | Using a model Analyzing and interpreting data Argumentation from evidence | Systems and systems models Patterns |
Common ancestry | What is the evidence that living species evolved from common ancestral species? | Cetacean fossils, anatomy, embryos, and DNA Number of shared genes between organisms | HS-LS4.A | Analyzing and interpreting data Argumentation from evidence | Patterns Cause and effect |
Heredity | How do the differences arise in DNA that lead to differences in characteristics? | Canine trait similarities and differences Highly variable pigeon traits | HS-LS3.A HS-LS3.B | Using a model Argumentation from evidence | Cause and effect |
Natural selection | How do species change over time? | Rock pocket mice coloration Variable lateral plate number in stickleback fish | HS-LS4.B HS-LS4.C | Analyzing and interpreting data Argumentation from Evidence | Patterns Cause and effect |
Speciation | How does natural selection lead to the formation of new species? | Species is a human construct Hawthorn fly speciation | HS- LS4.C | Analyzing and interpreting data Argumentation from evidence | Cause and effect |